The means and end of greenwash

TP Lyon, AW Montgomery - Organization & Environment, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Corporate claims about environmental performance have increased rapidly in recent years,
as has the incidence of greenwash, that is, communication that misleads people into forming …

Greenwash vs. brownwash: Exaggeration and undue modesty in corporate sustainability disclosure

EH Kim, TP Lyon - Organization Science, 2015 - pubsonline.informs.org
Corporate greenwashing has accelerated in recent years, bringing in its wake growing
skepticism about corporate green claims. Although a theory of the drivers and deterrents of …

Crowdsourcing: Global search and the twisted roles of consumers and producers

RM Bauer, T Gegenhuber - Organization, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Crowdsourcing spreads and morphs quickly, shaping areas as diverse as creating,
organizing, and sharing knowledge; producing digital artifacts; providing services involving …

Organizational responses to public and private politics: An analysis of climate change activists and US oil and gas firms

SR Hiatt, JB Grandy, BH Lee - Organization Science, 2015 - pubsonline.informs.org
We explore how activists' public and private politics elicit different organizational responses.
Using data on US petroleum companies from 1982 to 2010, we investigate how climate …

How incentives trickle down: Local use of a national bibliometric indicator system

K Aagaard - Science and Public Policy, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The question of how the incentives of national performance-based research funding systems
affect local management practices within the higher education sector has high empirical and …

When organizations don't walk their talk: A cross-level examination of how decoupling formal ethics programs affects organizational members

T MacLean, BE Litzky, DK Holderness - Journal of business ethics, 2015 - Springer
This research illustrates dangers inherent in the gap created when organizations decouple
ethics program adoption from implementation. Using a sample of 182 professionals in the …

[PDF][PDF] New institutionalism in the analysis of complex organizations

WW Powell, P Bromley - International encyclopedia of the social & …, 2015 - researchgate.net
The new institutionalism in sociology and organizational research is best represented as an
extended family of scholars that share a broadly defined theoretical orientation. The multiple …

Category taken-for-grantedness as a strategic opportunity: The case of light cigarettes, 1964 to 1993

G Hsu, S Grodal - American Sociological Review, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Theories within organizational and economic sociology that center on market categories
often equate taken-for-grantedness with increased constraint on category members' …

[图书][B] The synchronization of national policies: Ethnography of the global tribe of moderns

P Alasuutari - 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
The Synchronization of National Policies shows how it is possible that there is remarkable
uniformity in the policies that the nation-states adopt, although there is no world government …

Interdisciplinary promises versus practices in medicine: The decoupled experiences of social sciences and humanities scholars

M Albert, E Paradis, A Kuper - Social Science & Medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper explores social scientists' and humanities (SSH) scholars' integration within the
academic medical research environment. Three questions guided our investigation: Do SSH …